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Today, leave us a comment about your absolute favorite Christmas tradition, whether it’s a new tradition or a tradition through the generations.
We have two items up for grabs today…a Christian suspense novel by Tracy Ruckman, Debbie Roome, and Amy Barkman.
Tracy and her fellow authors are giving away one print and one digital version of Board to Death: A Trio of Mysteries in the Dangerous Games Series by Amy Barkman, Debbie Roome, and Tracy Ruckman. To enter the drawing, just leave a comment below, sharing your favorite Christmas memory. (If it happens to involve a board game, you get an extra entry! LOL!) Be sure to tell us if you want a print or digital copy and an email address where you can be reached if you win. We’ll have a separate drawing for each version, so you may enter once for each, but you can only win once.
Also up for grabs is a copy of the 10 CD audio book version (721 minutes!) of Dandyflowers by Jordan T. Maxwell.
And now two Christmas memories…
My Favorite Christmas Memory by Tracy Ruckman
Each year it seems to get more difficult to recall a favorite Christmas memory, because there are more to add to the list. I’ve shared one precious holiday in my story “Miracle of the Nativity” published in 2009 (Christmas Miracles). Last year, I shared about my childhood Christmases when Nanny made us hot chocolate by stove light. This year, a more recent memory has pushed its way to the top of my memory bank.
In 2007, our beautiful holiday celebrations began with a delightful and huge family gathering with Tim’s sister and all his cousins. So many people, but so much love and so much laughter. It was one of those Hallmark-movie kinds of days. The past several years had been extremely difficult on both of us – deaths, wayward children, job woes, and for me, divorce – and our families had been scattered on holidays during all of it, so that gathering was especially sweet for us. Then we got some wonderful news – all the kids were coming to spend the day with us! All of us were together for the first time in years, so I cooked and cleaned like a madwoman. I can’t tell you what we ate or drank that year (although I do remember the pumpkin soup was NOT a hit!), and our gifts were small and personal. To some, that Christmas may not be one to write a school report on, but in my heart, those few hours will always be a special treasure – because we were together.
Tracy and her fellow authors are giving away one print and one digital version of Board to Death: A Trio of Mysteries in the Dangerous Games Series by Amy Barkman, Debbie Roome, and Tracy Ruckman. To enter the drawing, just leave a comment below, sharing your favorite Christmas memory. (If it happens to involve a board game, you get an extra entry! LOL!) Be sure to tell us if you want a print or digital copy and an email address where you can be reached if you win. We’ll have a separate drawing for each version, so you may enter once for each, but you can only win once.
About Board to Death:
Baby Boomers Polly Nichols, Lindsay Wilson, and Gretchen Anderson may live worlds apart, but they have one common hobby – a penchant for board games.
Polly’s serene Kentucky campground turns sinister when the manager is a VICTIM of murder. In New Zealand, Lindsay’s life is turned upside down when MIND GAMES and evidence drag her into a murder case – as a suspect. At the Kettle’s On Campground in Georgia, Gretchen matches wits with a murderous wordsmith intent on winning the latest game of SENTENCED.
You’ll love the games, the characters, and the stories – and we promise, you won’t be BOARD to Death!
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My Favorite Christmas Memory by Jordan T. Maxwell
When you are five, Christmas is magical; a white Christmas is even more so. After getting up at the break of dawn on Christmas morning nineteen sixty-nine my brother and I were excited to find the gifts the jolly old elf had left us. After all the presents were opened, we were told to get our coats, hats, gloves and boots on. Dad said that he had seen something in the snow outside that we needed to see.
At the farm where I grew up we seldom used the front door; the main traffic way to and from our house was via the back door and the back yard. So when Dad walked us around to the front yard we knew something unusual must have happened. We were not disappointed.
The front yard was covered in nearly pristine, six inch deep snow. I say nearly because in the center of the yard were a set of straight, parallel lines running several feet through the snow; sleigh tracks! Interspersed all around the sleigh tacks were hundreds of tiny animal foot prints which, upon closer inspection looked conspicuously like deer tracks or more correctly reindeer tracks!
It got better. Leading across the yard and up our front porch steps were the distinct impressions of tiny boot prints! Not only was there a set of boot tracks going to the house, but there was a second set leading from the house back to where the sleigh had rested! My brother and I had conclusive, irrefutable proof that Santa had indeed been to our house on Christmas Eve and forty-two years later, I still believe!
Want to get in touch with Jordan? His website is: www.dandyflowers.com
He can be found on Facebook by searching for “Jordan T. Maxwell”.
Twitter: @jordantmaxwell
More info from Jordan: I will have an archieved copy of the hour long interview I will be doing on The Authors First Radio Show on November 22, 2011 regarding “Dandyflowers”. To get to the archieve go to: www.artistfirst.com/bookshows.htm.
I will be on the same show on December 20,2011 at 7pm Eastern, 6pm Central, 5pm Mountain & 4pm Pacific. Go to: www.artistfirst.com and click on the flashing “On Air” icon. I will be talking about my second book, “Dandyflowers – Laura’s Diaries”.
Penny Zeller 